AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +2499%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5530

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon HD 5530

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Mar 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

2

1536

Shading Units

80

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cedar

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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